The Center for Family Business at Penn State Behrend has selected Mary Beth Wilcher, a wealth-management strategist and former credit union CEO, as director. She will lead day-to-day operations at the center, an outreach effort of Behrend’s Black School of Business, while scaling up the center’s membership, programming and peer-network resources.
The Penn State Alumni Association will honor 11 prominent young alumni at the Alumni Achievement Awards Ceremony on Friday, March 18. The ceremony will be livestreamed at 6:30 p.m.
The steel frame for Penn State Behrend’s new Erie Hall, a $28.2 million fitness and recreation center, will be completed on March 23, when the final beam is set into place. The college will celebrate with a “topping off” ceremony, marking the moment the new building reaches its final height.
The Penn State Behrend baseball team finished spring break play with a 5-5 record, including an 11-8 victory over Drew. Seven different players drove in runs in the game. Mac Ciocco, a freshman from Venetia, hit a double, scoring two runs.
A new $2.13 million endowment will expand Penn State Behrend’s Innovation Commons, a product design and prototyping lab and the first site for the Northwest Pennsylvania Innovation Beehive Network, a partnership of institutions in the Erie region.
The Penn State Behrend STEAM Fair — a K-12-focused science-and-tech open house — returns to Junker Center on Monday, March 14, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. The program, which is free and open to the public, will feature laser scanners, air cannons, a railway simulation and a virtual-reality symphony.
The Penn State Behrend softball team opened its 2022 season with a five-inning victory over Sage during Spring Break play in Florida. Cami McNany, a junior from Emlenton, hit a grand slam in the bottom of the fifth inning.
The Penn State Behrend men’s tennis team split a pair of nonconference matches, defeating Alfred State but losing to Westminster. The college's basketball, baseball, volleyball, bowling, water polo and wrestling teams also were in action last week.
Penn State University Libraries invites Penn State students, faculty and staff to submit original short stories or poetry centered on the theme “Written in the Stars” to the spring short stories writing contest, accepting submissions from Feb. 24 to April 4.
The Penn State Behrend women’s swimming and diving team won the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference title, its first since the 2018-19 season. Two swimmers — Marcella Puglia and Barbie Cessar — end their collegiate careers as three-time champions in individual events.
